The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-09-07

Though not really inferior quality. He
advises London merchants to use their in
duence with the railways.
Pick off the pears and alIew them to
ripen in dark place. A pear is ripe il it
fall as soon as struck on the under side by
the hand. They are of much better flavor
If allowed 10 ripen off the tree. No matter
how hard pear may be, it will soon be-
come mellow and juicy when stored away
in dark place.
An eminent writer says that cream is an
innocent palatable, nutritious luxury for
everybody at all times. As an antidote for
tendency to consumption il acts like
charm, and serves ell purposes intended to
be served by cod-liver oil with much
greater certainty and effect. Where a
sweet cream can be had cod-liver oil is
never needed.
"a good way" says a writer in the
Country Gentleman, ITO raise or lower the
temperature in churn is to have q long
tin cylinder, say eighteen inches long by
| four inches in diameter; filling this with
either hot or cold water, and putting In
| the churn and moving around for little
while will soon make the needed change"
AT this season the preparations should
| be made for fattening the wethers and ex-
ira ewes intended for market. If they be
| separated from the breeding flock ard CIV
and heavier weight can be secured. The
market Is never supplied with fat sheep,
which are usually sold On the approach of
| winter.
In discussing bloat in cattle before a
| farmers club, one of the members said
| that when turning cattle out on young
clover he usually placed old hay where
they could get it, and the consequence was
that the cattle would always eat a portion
If 2 oil no f0l 10
absorbed the moisture and prevented in
| furious results.
IAN grange grove in Flcrids," remarks
tie New York Journal of Commerce. lis
not worth g cent more than an appls
orchard In New Ii gland until its owner
| has put into It IS g of bard work, much
money and much impatient waiting. The
idea that forum, sre to be made in Florida
without sweat o he brow is a fiction OF
the land specult ors.'
Prepare trees lor planting by cutting
the tops back in proportion to the amount
of injury done to the roots, which is gen.
orally from one-half to two-thirds of the
entire top. On this pruning all shoots
should be entirely cut away that are not
| needed for the formation OF perfect head,
and the others cut back one-halt 10 two
thirds of their length.
1t is only a matter of time tor the pas
| ture to run out if it be not MANFRED. You
can not continue to obtain milk, beef NUT
ton and wool from the pasture and give
! nothing back in return. Yet pastures are
used annually on some farms with no effort
made to recuperate them, and it will sure
| ly end in exhaustion of the soil and disap-
pearance of the grass.
T. B. Terry in the Country Gentleman
| suggests q new use for a,cold storage house,
viz: That of keeping seed potatoes from
| sprouting. For years Mr.. Terry has done
his best to keep his seed potatoes from do
ing this before planting time. Whenever
| he failed he is sure that he lost IL by after
watching the crop grow. A cold-storage
house would, he thinks, settle the matter
satisfactorily.
Mr.. Croz'er of the Department of Agri-
| culture, tells the Country Gentleman that
he has found field OF Bermuda grass with
| heads well filed with ripe seed, on stony,
| sandy soil on the banks OF the Potomac,
twenty miles below Washington. OF over
| 500 answers to a circular sent out last
I winter by the Commissioner of Agriculture
[ to farmers in the South, asking whether
| Bermuda had been known to seed, less
than a dozen replied that they had found
seed, but always in small quantities.
The Western Ploughman takes a very
sensible view as to raising nut trees. it
| predicts that in the future trees good for
nothing but wood will be grubbed out and
wslnuts and hickeries put in their place.
Did you ever eat hickory nut or walnut
cake? Did you ever eat bread slightly
sweetened and with the kernels of nuts
forming quite liberal ingredient? 1t is
nice, pslatable and warming in the winter,
and leaves the grease-saturated doughnut
quite in the shade. While you are raising
| trees, have useful ones that will give a val
liable crop every year, and when they get
too old TO bear will make irst-class, valu
| able timber